Athens, Ga.-based St. Mary's Health Care System announced Friday that Lavonia, Ga.-based Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center will be renamed St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital, and that Jeff English, St. Mary's vice president of human resources and support services, will…
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg, Miss., has officially become a member of Jackson, Miss.-based Merit Health, which is now comprised of 12 hospitals, making it Mississippi's largest healthcare system.
Pleasanton, Calif.-based ValleyCare Health System and Stanford (Calif.) Health Care have finalized their affiliation agreement.
The health services sector is seeing increased merger and acquisition activity at the start of 2015. Overall healthcare deal volume grew 25 percent in the first quarter of 2015, compared to Q1 2014 deal volume, according to a PwC report.…
Whisperings of Aetna's possible acquisition of Cigna or Humana are producing a low hum in the financial blogosphere. Here are three things to know about the deal analysts are calling "imminent."
Mishawaka, Ind.-based Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center and several other local healthcare organizations under parent company Trinity Health, based in Livonia, Mich., are merging to create one coordinated health system called Saint Joseph Health System, according to the South Bend…
The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions and general transactions took place or were announced within the past week.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health (formerly LifePoint Hospitals) has signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with Watertown (Wis.) Regional Medical Center.
Four industry experts discussed the current trends and strategies in M&A activity in the healthcare sector, in a panel led by Bart Walker, partner with McGuireWoods, at the Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting in Chicago May 8.
Rockport, Maine-based Pen Bay Healthcare and Belfast, Maine-based Waldo County Healthcare have agreed to form a new parent company that will oversee hospitals and related organizations in Knox and Waldo counties, according to a Bangor Daily News report.